Berg v. Merchant’s Empirical Analysis
15 F.2d 990 · 1926
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 1981
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Niles-Bement-Pond Co. v. Iron Moulders Union Local No. 68 · Farrell v. O'Brien · City of Dawson v. Columbia Avenue Saving Fund, Safe Deposit, Title & Trust Co. · Frederick Steele v. William Culver a J · Washington Mutual Insurance v. Reed
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the word 'must' is so imperative in its meaning that no case has been called to our attention where that word has been read 'may.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.